Reply To: Close approach of asteroid 2024 MK on 2024 June 29

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Nick James
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The Goldstone SSR did some bistatic Doppler radar imaging of 2024 MK using DSS-14 (transmit) and DSS-13 (receive) at around 2m resolution. The images show that the asteroid is around 150m across:

https://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/june2024.goldstone.planning.html

Petr Pravec had already determined that it was a non-principle axis (aka tumbling) rotator from optical observations showing multiple rotation periods from just over an hour down to around 20 minutes.